skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like Intel is royally screwed.

Not much because of their performance as a company ( although it's ugly ), but because of the board and their major shareholders.

If they went after previous CEOs from ~2015 to ~2020, I can see some of their points. Not sure if a lawsuit now would be of their best $interest$ but they were also too busy raking in money during that time-frame, no amount of lies would matter.

Either way this type of stuff at this critical period in Intel's life might be the swan song for what we know as Intel today.
>Why would expenses need to track less than inflation, if your wages are tracking with it?

Because wages don't go up in real time so you get robbed of the difference for the duration.

You make $3. Rent costs $1. You have $2 leftover to improve your life, pay down debt, whatever.

You make $3. Rent is now $1.50. You have $.50 leftover

Your wage goes up to $3.50. Rent is now $2. You have $.50 leftover.

Repeat a bunch of times.

Your wage goes up $.50 again. Rent stops rising in price. You have $1 leftover.

See how the inflation robs you of $.50 multiplied by the duration?
As an American reading this I feel like there's some nuance being lost in translation. Taken to their logical extremes we've seen what things like optimization software (East Palestine), banning strikes (PATCO and current ATC staffing woes), privatization (ATC again — see any video on youtube about the KSQL controller), and weak labor laws (pretty much every fatigue related crash e.g. Colgan Air) bring about. And it's not pretty.

Certainly privatization can work. JR seems to have a decent reputation (obviously not without fault). But gaming things like overtime rules is a cultural problem, one that you're not going to solve with mandates or privatization. For quite a while the drivers at San Francisco's public transit agency were forbidden to strike. Instead you'd get sickouts and work slowdowns.
I absolutely agree, a dead 1920's German nationalist movement is exactly why we shouldn't allow free speech online.
It has been 5 years and while it's getting better, I still regret every single day. I never wanted one since I believe I'm unsuitable to be a parent, yet everyone around me assured me it would be ok. It wasn't. I don't spend more than 10 consecutive minutes of quality time with my wife each day and I have lost all desire to do anything. That doesn't really matter though, because I can't do anything. I feel like my ability to execute has been reduced so much. My kid isn't even bad. I think they are quite good. I am the problem. This makes me feel even worse because my kid loves me and I can't return it.
This matches my experience as a non-blind programmer. If the code is not well structured, I have issues finding things by intuition. The mental model or map does not work. Then I rely on searches or various kinds. It is annoying, and one can't always change this, when working on a non-restructuring MR. Others relying ore on LSP might not even see this issue.
Aren’t all NIST standards free as they are a government body?
I use java streams all the time. But it's very much "programming in the small" which doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things if you use for loop.
The certainty (probability) of you holding on to something depends on quantum physics, not Newtonian physics.
This was always the upsetting thing about Eurostar/Eurotunnel between UK and France. In my naive teens I dreamt of how wonderful it would be if we joined Shengen and could literally just hop on the train to Paris. But sadly we went the other way and completely left - and now it’s as bad or worse than any airport.
That won't happen outside a handful of high-profile routes. Railway stations are far too small for security checks with the passenger volume they are handling.

Terrorist attacks on trains and railway stations are not that rare. The last major one was in November in Pakistan.
Within five or ten years (maybe a little longer for some physical jobs), AI and robotics will probably be able to do ALL current jobs. So you should tell those people they also need a new plan.

I think the best idea is to learn how to leverage AI and/or robots to create some product or service. AI and robot labor will be cheap within a few years.

But learning programming including how to program AI is a good path still.
An AI Hedge Fund Team
What's the best project management tool you have ever used?
My company is looking for a tool
> I've tried it three times

Have you tried compute shaders instead of that weird HPC-only stuff?

Compute shaders are widely used by millions of gamers every day. GPU vendors have huge incentive to make them reliable and efficient: modern game engines are using them for lots of thing, e.g. UE5 can even render triangle meshes with GPU compute instead of graphics (the tech is called nanite virtualized geometry). In practice they work fine on all GPUs, ML included: https://github.com/Const-me/Cgml
i got into a similar predicament helping format some course outline documents for a university friend of mine with rsi issues... I foolishly assumed a series of documents that are to be viewed online would be better as a markdown or html format... before realising by the end of the day i had unwittingly thrown myself into the gears of war between paper and digital. Modern universities are essentially an elaborate microsoft word shilling scheme with an obsession with virtual paper!
For those looking for the game, it's on itch.io :
https://baraklava.itch.io/manic-miners
I would expect most of them bring critical and sceptical about AI, just like the general vibe here on HN.
I think there are more options than malice or incompetence. My theory is difficulty.

There’s multiple countries with socialized medicine and no profit motive and it’s still not solved.

I think it’s just really complex with high negative consequences from a mistake. It takes lots of investment with good coordination to solve and there’s an “easy workaround” with pdfs that distributes liability to practitioners.
Man I remember when I had 70 friends on Myspace, that was an incredible amount of interaction in the day
Your app looks nice and does what was wanted.

I wonder why you use any habit tracker, after all, you notice yourself when you slack on them. And being reminded that you didn't do anything is not helpful and having done a whole month does not guarantee the next month. How do you see it?

I am asking because a lot of times I created beautiful apps just to realize they were too tedious to use or did not supply a long term benefit. This could or could not apply to your App.
You may want to look into the ideologies of European political parties that have "socialist" in their names, instead of relying on definitions from the Soviet revolution.

Socialism in Europe is social democracy. The only difference between "socialist" and "social democratic" parties in Europe is how fractionally close to the right or left side of the center line they are.
Currently we are comparing Jira and Monday.com, but haven't decided yet.
I think that some of the change in outlook for programmers has to do with the difference between now and ten years ago.

Ten years ago you could go to code school for 6 months, do a mediocre job and land an entry level job making 90k a year, and so the market was flooded with people who weren’t serious about programming.

So “should I learn to code” use to be similar to “should I learn to ride a bike” or “should I learn to read”. Like yeah, if you could learn to ride a bike and make $90k a year, you should do it.

But I think you need to ask it like you’re asking “should I learn medicine” or “should I learn electrical engineering”.

It’s a discipline, and one that takes commitment and constantly relearning. The old school, I am an instrument that turns instructions into code is over. But if you can master coding, and all of the soft skills that come with figuring out what needs to be done?

Then yeah, you should learn programming.

(This is all about career advice. Coding is fun! If you want to learn coding, learn coding)
There is a realtime translation team that's available as an audio track in the life streams as. The translation is done be volunteers. The last ~5 years they managed to translate all the German and English slots on the official stages. Some less common language options may be provided later e.g. Spanish, French, Chinese, funni dialects like Plattdeutsch, etc.
> Look at the EuroStar for a glimpse into the future

This bullshit also happens in Barcelona Sants for the long-distance trains.
> It didn't' work, that's not a crime. He left because his plan didn't work. That's what happens to CEO's who try and fail to implement a business plan.

Is this the famous risk that we keep hearing CEOs take that require such high compensation? Failing and leaving with 10s or 100s of M?
PC load A4 you mean?
> home made explosive

With this a lot of damage can be done even without drone. As for weaponized it's not a future, it's a reality in Ukraine for years now. Defense against them is difficult to impossible. A bodyguard who can sacrifice himself may sometimes work.
It doesn't seem like the study adds very much over the "See also" link from 2019 (https://phys.org/news/2019-09-plastic-teabags-microscopic-pa...).

Anyway, it comes across like they're trying to warn about nylon or polypropylene being unexpectedly found in disposable tea bags that appear to be made of paper; but in the details you read that the microplastics are "derived from several types of commercially available tea bags" - a category which certainly includes bags very openly and obviously made of nylon (reusable, pyramid-shaped ones). There are tons of places reporting on this new study, but the idea doesn't seem to be new at all. (It also seems like common sense to me that immersing a fine plastic mesh in your food, and allowing it to reach close to 100 degrees Celsius, might be a risk for this sort of thing.) It wasn't new in 2019, either: see e.g. https://ratetea.com/topic/nylon-tea-bags/30/ .

But then, a bit of searching suggests that the disposable paper bags may indeed contain a significant amount of plastic (see e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10389239/ , although the tone of the writing here seems rather fear-mongering). The reporting would be much better if it made this sort of thing clear.
The CCC is a big believer in self hosting there is a live streaming platform during the event and media.ccc.de afterwards.
I'm assuming your big brother doesn't program also. Learning programming is still a very good skill and will benefit you even if AI becomes more prolific.

The usefulness of a conductor becomes greater the larger the orchestra becomes, not less.
I use Obsidian for note-taking and personal knowledge management. I haven't used "save for later" bookmarklets or apps since I quit using Evernote many years ago, though.
Everyone is talking about building apps at the FAANG scale, but we rarely talk about how to build and ship apps quickly at a startup scale. Hence, I wrote a guideline that I wish I had read 10 years ago.

I gave this talk at Devfest this year. Check out the full video from Devfest Chandigarh 2024.
The system was the same as last year.
I'm a Rails programmer and recently the Ruby language plugin for VSCode I was using was deprecated so I switched to Shopify's ruby-lsp. On the one hand, it's much much more capable than the old plugin: better syntax highlighting, actually useful inline definitions, style hints, etc. On the other hand, it's also way more annoying: there's a bug that sometimes breaks my projects' dependencies so I have to reinstall them, the code completion actually slows me down more than it helps, and if the LSP can't start for some reason (which happens quite often) I get a stack of error popups in the corner of my screen.

On the whole I think I prefer my old setup. All I really need out of my IDE is decent syntax highlighting. I've got devdocs.io for Ruby and most Rails definitions and I know how to spelunk through the Rails codebase for anything that misses. Go-to-definition is handy for my own code but I generally know where it lives, and if I've forgotten there's always ctrl-shift-f or `method(:blah).source_location`.
> Well, actually the Rust weirdos will bother you but they're usually too busy making the borrow checker happy to actually get anything done so you can ignore them.

Ouch...
Would I be able to print to PDF without cups?
>I can't really say more without risking a defamation suit

Not even the part about how you know it's junk? Is that based on your own critical analysis of the content, or just on what Retraction Watch has to say about Chemosphere?
For the US reader:

> 39 MPs in the Bundestag

Out of currently 733 MPs with a parliament with "proportional representation", where the number of seats is proportional to the number of votes (Germany-wide, not local). Die Linke thus has 5.3% seats in the Bundestag. Thus this is not "a lot of votes" in relation to the voting population.

> "anti-capitalist" (which seems to be more popular than claiming to be socialist)

Anti-capitalism is found in right-wing parties, too. Like the German AFD.
> I hate annoying distractions, be it popups, beeps, notifications, alerts, auto brace/quotes/etc and autocomplete prompts.

This was also my first reaction when I saw someone else using an IDE. My way of writing code is to get my ideas written into the editor first. Only after I have written the code, I run the compiler to see where things don't fit. The people who were using the IDEs were really astonished that I could understand the output from the compiler on the command line.

Programming is a lot more fun when you sketch out your ideas first before you make sure that all the details are correct.
How do birds manage?
It is a German conference. It was started by Germans. It is organized first and foremost by Germans. It happens in Germany.

I find it arrogant to think that presenters should speak a language other than German.
I wonder if this is just because it’s hard, and your expectations will likely be unmet, or if there is another reason? Is there an “evolutionary biology “ reason?

As a parent of 6.9 children, parenting is a huge commitment. But I have lived my entire life since 27 raising children, so to me it’s life as usual. A key factor is making time for your relationship and maintaining intimacy. Intimacy in its many forms is sooo foundational, anyone that ignores or neglects it is likely asking for serious challenges down the road.
MIPS32 Emulator
It's at the end of the book. Checklist for making checklists. Good stuff!
Sure, let's say that 8B llama3.1 gets comparable performance of it's 70B llama2 predecessor. Not quite true but let's say that hypothetically it is. That still leave us with 70B llama3.1.

How much VRAM and inference compute is required to run 3.1-70B vs 2-70B?

The argument is that the inference cost is dropping down significantly each year but how exactly if those two models require about the ~same, give or take, amount of VRAM and compute?

One way to drive the cost down is to innovate in inference algorithms such that the HW requirements are loosened up.

In the context of inference optimizations one such is flash-decode, similar to its training counter-part flash-attention, from the same authors. However, that particular optimization concerns only by improving the inference runtime by dropping down the number of memory accesses needed to compute the self-attention. Amount of total VRAM you need in order to just load the model still remains the same so although it is true that you might get a tad more from the same HW, the initial requirement of total HW you need remains to be the same. Flash-decode is also nowhere near the impact of flash-attention. Latter enabled much faster training iteration runtimes while the former has had quite limited impact, mostly because scale of inference is so much smaller than the training so the improvements do not always see the large gains.

> Not to mention the cost/flop and cost/gb for GPUs has dropped.

For training. Not for inference. GPU prices remained about the same, give or take.
Has anyone heard of Meegle? I just bumped into their website and the concept of visualized workflow sounds kinda cool.

Personaly, I am sick of the term "workflow" since it has been overused by literally every SasS platform. But this Meegle thing seems to truly link all the tasks in a mind-map like diagram looking intuitive. No one has ever done that.

Just wondering if this approach could be a real change for cross-function collaboration. Any thoughts?
> This group does use an LSP, it turns out, only via you as the conduit

Oh man, it makes my blood boil when someone asks in which file the function lives, and I know they have a "go to symbol" in their editor of choice, but somehow they never want to learn some features of their tools. I did notice that how you use your tools changes how the project is structured. Neatly organized files and directories are a must if you are not comfortable with quickly jumping to a symbol.
What feels like once in a decade we see the "responsibilties" impact an executives life, responsibility which they frequently cite to justify their high salaries.

This should happen far more often. Instead the failures of those people are often carried by states and thus by all of us.
While the Eurostar pre-boarding times are not great, they are much better that an airport.

I usually arrive 40 minutes before the train starts moving, including large luggage (30 minutes before is the limit at which the ticket gates close).
There is no waiting for you luggage on arrival because you always have it in your hand.

This is also possible because the distance between check-in gates and the train is only around 50 meters in all 3 stops (London, Brussels, Paris). On those 50 meters you have the luggage scanners, passport control, and the waiting hall.

Compare that to kilometers of walking at Heathrow Airport.
It is the risk that you won’t be able to convince one of the handful of people capable of understanding the most technologically advanced manufacturing processes in the world, having the right connections in the industry, to lead a culture change to right a ship.

Also, Gelsinger did not get $100M+.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/pat-gelsinger-lost-massive-14...
> strap a jet engine on a train

well, hyperloop tried and failed. It's just not practical.
On most train tickets you cannot hop off for a couple hours. That would require a new ticket.
Find definition of Foo():

grep -IR "func Foo("

Show uses of Foo():

grep -IR "Foo("

Hmm, what were the methods in that field again? Open a split pane in Vim and scroll down in the second pane to where the field is defined.
Also I pretty much just have the standard libraries of my most commonly used programming languages more or less memorized and keep the docs open in a separate window alongside as well for when I don't.
And of course in a sensible language that actually gives you feedback (I'm aware some languages are more or less strict about this and it's not an option for everyone): when I try to build it, it will fail, indicating that I've done something wrong. This is okay, use the build loop and embrace the build errors.

*EDIT:* updating to address "CoPilot" specifically, as I don't think it's the same as the other things on your list. I have reviewed a lot of submissions that were written with various AIs and all of them without fail, this is not hyperboly, all of them were just bad (I'm sure someone will say that if you just use it for a 1 line error tweak it will be fine and what could go wrong there? And sure, probably, but if that's the case you're not getting any benefit from them so that's not what I'm interested in). The code was worse than a human would have written it, there were subtle bugs that no one had noticed because they were trusting the AI, etc. just don't use them. They're not ready, they may be speeding you up, but they're slowing down whomever is reviewing your code. It's a serious disservice.
CEOs should be replaced by AI, charm shouldn’t be a factor in decision making.
Delete these five words.

Imagination, not pagination. Destroy all software. Don't let some tool make you a fool because the safety is off and the training wheels are no longer there. Turn off the defaults, the noise of misinformed conversation, non-existant completion of words lost in translation.
The SPD in Germany claims the following:

https://www.spd.de/programm/grundsatzprogramm

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Demokratischer Sozialismus

Unsere Geschichte ist geprägt von der Idee des demokratischen Sozialismus, einer Gesellschaft der Freien und Gleichen, in der unsere Grundwerte verwirklicht sind. Sie verlangt eine Ordnung von Wirtschaft, Staat und Gesellschaft, in der die bürgerlichen, politischen, sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Grundrechte für alle Menschen garantiert sind, alle Menschen ein Leben ohne Ausbeutung, Unterdrückung und Gewalt, also in sozialer und menschlicher Sicherheit führen können.

Das Ende des Staatssozialismus sowjetischer Prägung hat die Idee des demokratischen Sozialismus nicht widerlegt, sondern die Orientierung der Sozialdemokratie an Grundwerten eindrucksvoll bestätigt. Der demokratische Sozialismus bleibt für uns die Vision einer freien, gerechten und solidarischen Gesellschaft, deren Verwirklichung für uns einedauernde Aufgabe ist. Das Prinzip unseres Handelns ist die soziale Demokratie.

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> and the hacker space will expect you to help set up their assembly if you get the ticket through them.

I don’t think that it is bad to demand that. The whole event is organized by volunteers and it is massive yet well done. I have been a volunteer too.
This sounds made up and actually written by an AI. "I now have an artificial intelligence software that helps me code", can't see anyone working in the field writing like that.
"Could potentially" on what basis? Surely it would have been studied by now if there were good reason for that suspicion? Have you seen such a study?
As a native German speaker living in the US, I have mixed feelings:

- Talks in German feel slightly less, hmm, professional? Maybe it's the field I grow up in (physics). Like, ok, in your studies you speak German, but when you grow up and go to big-boy conferences, it's English. The Congress should be big-boy league.

- Also, realistically, many technical terms are English, so the a German talk might have to make hard choices. CPU, not "zentrale Recheneinheit"

- At the same time, I like that it lowers the barriers for entry. Speakers and visitors who are not fluent in English can participate.

- Personally, though, I prefer a good fluent German presentation from a cringy English one. As a German native speaker, typical German mistakes in English irritate me more than others, I think, so I found some talks given in English hard to follow. Pet peeve: Technology. I think that's a better Shibboleth than Flash-Thunder-Welcome.

- Realistically though, the congress is a worldwide phenomenon, and important, and as English is the current lingua franca (hah), I think they should encourage English presentations, or at least English slides. (Because they provide translated audio in the recordings!)

- Lastly, I can only encourage everyone to learn more languages, at a young age. I kick myself I didn't. But even in languages which are relatively close, like English and German (compared to, say, Japanese), I found that one language has concepts the other one doesn't, and that changes how you think about things. For example, English has accuracy and precision, with, at least in physics, different meanings. In German, it's both "Genauigkeit".

(Edited: Formatting)
It is sad to see what is happening to Intel.
I somehow just have a significantly large working memory in my head for what I'm trying to do, and then I'll look up a method if I really need it.

Grep, etc to find shit.

Then I dunno, it just kind of works.
I wonder if the Dutch Strategy might work for a link aggregator: explicitly provide a well-signposted "front page", where the rabble congregates and the groupthink is at its Grundyest, yet implicitly expect any non-Septemberist discussions to occur well away from those few sacrificial links?